John Madden

Two video game artists who have worked on video games like “Halo” and the” John Madden” football series were in Orlando recently to talk with some up-and-coming video game developers at the Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy. The hour-long chat with senior character artist Mike Pavlovich and senior technical artist Luiz Kruel, both of Austin-based Certain Affinity, brought out several lessons for the students. Here are a few lessons they shared. —Fail fast, fail often They say that failure on a project is inevitable so it’s best to get as many iterations out of the way as quickly as possible to figure out what is not working. —Run as...

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Two video game artists who have worked on video games like Halo and the John Madden football series were in Orlando on Friday to talk with some up-and-coming video game developers at the Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy.
The hour-long chat...

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Fortune magazine on Tuesday named Florida the sixth-best state in the U.S. for video game development.
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Called Zynga Sports 365, the new arm of the company...

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OAKLAND, Calif. Not even John Madden knew. Kenny Stabler never disclosed his Stage 4 colon cancer to his old Raiders coach, which is why Madden said news of the star quarterback's death at age 69 came as a total shock. "But if you knew...

Ken Stabler, who led the Oakland Raiders to a Super Bowl victory and was the NFL's Most Valuable Player in 1974, has died as a result of complications from colon cancer. He was 69.
His family announced his death on Stabler's Facebook page on Thursday....

John Madden says three different generations know him by three different names.
To those who remember him leading the Raiders to their first Super Bowl victory, he's Coach.
To those who best remember him as a broadcaster, he's John.
To the millions who...

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